How to: Tube feeding your lamb
Lambing season is just around the corner! We have put together a comprehensive video on how to tube feed your lamb. Be prepared for lambing season with these helpful tubing tips and techniques.
Abomasal Bloat in Lambs
Orphan lambs developing abomasal bloat can be really stressful and loosing a pet to this condition can be devastating.
Lamb Docking & Castrating
Docking lambs tails reduces the build up of faeces which helps to prevent fly strike (a disease caused by maggots which can cause death in sheep and lambs). Docked lambs are also easier to deal with at shearing time.
Joint Ill In Lambs
Joint ill is when bacteria infect the joints in young lambs, leading to progressively worsening lameness in one or more legs.
Entropion in lambs
Entropion is the scientific term for inward folding eyelids. Read this article to learn more about what it is, what causes it and treatment.
Basic Lambing and Rearing Guide
This guide covers some information you need for basic lambing and rearing. Covering topics from a ewe in labour, early life, nutrition, lamb sickness, weaning and vaccinations.
How to drench your sheep and goats
Managing worm burdens is becoming one of the most challenging tasks facing owners of production animals. What you do now has a huge impact on the future as drench resistance is becoming more common. Watch this video for best practice tips on drenching your sheep & goats.
Fly Strike
Flystrike occurs when flies lay eggs on dirty, dagged area of the sheeps fleece. Blowflies are particularly attracted to the dirty areas of fleece; the areas that are urine stained or dagged.
Basic Sheep Husbandry
This guide covers some information you need for basic sheep husbandry. Covering topics from behaviour, drenching, nutrition, Body Condition Scores, foot trimming and vaccinations.
Sheep Drenching Information
Managing worm burdens is becoming one of the most challenging tasks facing owners of production animals. What you do now has a huge impact on the future as drench resistance is becoming more common.
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) Deficiency
Thiamine is used in the carbohydrate metabolism pathway in ruminants. It plays a critical role in supplying energy to various organs in the body, specifically the brain.
Sleepy Sickness In Ewes
Sleepy sickness is a metabolic disorder of sheep seen in late pregnancy and is caused by a mismatch in the energy requirements of the ewe and the energy provided (via feed). This mismatch can be due to low levels of nutrition being offered to pregnant ewes but can also occur in multiple-bearing ewes, even when they’re offered adequate feed levels.
How many sheep can I graze on my property?
A simple way to approximate a good stocking rate is by calculating the livestock units (LSU) for your animals on farm. We have put together this article to help you approximate your stocking rate.
A Toe Amputation!
Meet Skippy, a mature aged Suffolk Ram, he required a toe amputation by our large animal vets here at RVC. Learn more about his story!
Acorn Toxicity
Poisoning by tannins and volatile phenols in plants of the Oak is relatively common. Ingestion of acorns is the most common cause, but ingestion of leaves and young shoots can also cause toxicity.